Senior Frontend Engineer

Craft:

Technology & Development

Job Description:

Frontend Development & Web Platforms

• Build, maintain, and evolve king.com and other player-facing web experiences
• Build reusable frontend components and contribute to shared web standardand best practices.
• Help improve collaboration and coordination across teams working on web
• initiatives.
• Partner with game and tech teams to support web-based game experiences and integrations, helping ensure alignment with shared platform standards.
  
  

Technical Stack & Ecosystem

You will work across a modern web ecosystem spanning internally developed platforms, third-party vendors, and game-related web experiences. The current ecosystem includes technologies and tools such as:

• React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vite
• CMS and content-driven web platforms
• Webviews and integrations with game clients and backend services
• GitHub workflows, CI/CD, and frontend tooling
• Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Cloudflare and CDN-based delivery
• REST APIs and backend integrations
• Figma and collaboration tooling
• Analytics, tracking, consent, and accessibility tooling
  
  

You are not expected to be an expert in every technology listed above, but you should feel comfortable navigating modern frontend and web platform ecosystems. You’ll primarily work with React and TypeScript while having the opportunity to contribute across the wider web platform ecosystem.

Compliance & Risk

• Support implementation of privacy, compliance, and accessibility standards (e.g.consent management, tracking, and regulatory requirements).
• Help ensure all web platforms align with Microsoft accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG) and inclusive design best practices.
• Partner with Legal and Security to ensure auditability and reduce risk through scalable guardrails
  
  

Cross-team Collaboration

• Collaborate with game teams, Shared Tech, and external partners to deliver high-quality web solutions
• Help improve coordination and visibility across web-related requests and initiatives, enabling faster and more predictable execution
  
  

Frontend Engineering

• Design, develop, test, and maintain modern frontend applications using React,
• TypeScript, and related technologies.
• Support implementation of web integrations, tooling, and platform improvements
• Provide technical guidance on architecture, frontend patterns, integrations, and delivery approaches
• Support the IDEV team with frontend and web-related development when needed
• Contribute to technical discussions and help improve engineering practices across web-related initiatives
  
  

Ecosystem & Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with internal teams and external development partners to deliver high-quality frontend solutions
• Help identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve consistency, and reduce fragmentation across web initiatives
  
  

Skills to Create Thrills

Experience

• Significant experience building modern frontend applications using React and TypeScript
• Experience contributing to shared web platforms or cross-team technical initiatives
• Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams
  
  

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS
• Solid understanding of modern frontend architectures
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Knowledge of performance, accessibility and responsive design
• Experience with CMS platforms
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and CDNs
  
  

Compliance & Data Awareness

• Experience with privacy, consent, or regulatory requirements in web environments
• Understanding of tracking, analytics, and data flows
  
  

Collaboration & Communication

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics into business impact
• Comfortable working across engineering, marketing, product, and legal teams
• Ability to support alignment and coordination across multiple stakeholders and initiatives
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with consent management platforms (e.g. OneTrust)
• Familiarity with CDNs such as Cloudflare
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and their application in
• improving developer workflows.
• Experience in high-scale consumer or digital product environments
• What Success Looks Like
• High-quality frontend solutions delivered across king.com and related web experiences
• Improved consistency across compliance, accessibility, and web platform
• standards
• Faster and more predictable delivery of web-related requests
• Improved collaboration between Game Services, Shared Tech, and Game Teams
• Positive impact on the reliability and maintainability of King’s web platforms
  
  

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.